Appeal No. 2003-0193
Application 09/306,469
Brais discloses a voice control method wherein commands
spoken by an operator into a transducer (microphone 106, which
corresponds to the appellant’s voice pickup component) are sent
to a computer (102) where a speech to text (voice recognition)
device converts the signals from the transducer into digital
signals which are compared to known commands (col. 6, lines 46-
53; col. 9, lines 25-28; col. 10, lines 38-44). The spoken
commands control computer operations and data processing (col. 3,
lines 49-52; col. 6, lines 10-13). The computer sends to a
camera (104, which the examiner relies upon as being the
appellant’s capture device (answer, page 11)), commands include
commands to capture an image, send a representation of an image
to the computer, zoom the camera lens, alter the focus of the
camera lens, and change the camera lens’ aperture settings
(col. 6, lines 38-45).
Even if Brais’ device which converts the digital signals to
a recognition pattern and compares the recognition pattern to
known commands is considered to be a host processor, Brais
differs from the appellant’s claim 1 by lacking a disclosure that
1) the voice command is a macro command, 2) the recognition
pattern corresponding to the voice macro command is compared to
at least one recognition pattern stored in a voice macro command
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